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Dec 28 - 16, 2025 “The blood of the journalists’ families will remain a living witness to the crime of trying to silence the Palestinian voice,” & Journalists do not die - They are killed but "Where there is Light there's always a Shadow… so Truth finding is to Reveal its Dark Face and have the voices of Palestinians - who stay Resilient - and Hold Ground… be heard Shireen Abu Akleh and many others intentionally killed by israeli forces the World knows what’s happened in Gaza in the last two years thanks to ‘remarkable’ local journalists and stories of the Fallen or Wounded which demands Justice... Nov 15 - 5, 2025 Attacks on Journalists continues but... risking Limb and Life they keep Revealing the Plain Truth and more actual news Overview of journalists killed in action in Gaza Journalists keep Revealing the Truth despite All Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

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 When one hurts or kills a women
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Al Jazeera - Jan 18, 2026 - Refaat Ibrahim- A Palestinian writer from Gaza.
{Peace boards and technocrats won’t stem out Palestinian resistance
Any governance structure that does not take into account the Palestinian national aspirations is doomed to failure. Last week, just as Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip intensified, United States presidential envoy Steven Witkoff announced on social media that the “ceasefire” is entering its second stage. In the following days, the administration of US President Donald Trump unveiled the makeup of a foreign executive committee and a peace board that will oversee the provisional administration of Gaza composed of Palestinian technocrats. This setup reflects the wishes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that neither Hamas nor the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) would be involved in Gaza’s future. Although the latter is mentioned in Trump’s “peace plan”, it supposedly first has to carry out a set of unnamed reforms to have any role in Gaza. What this means in reality is that Fatah, too, can easily be blocked from returning to govern the Gaza Strip with the excuse that these vague reforms have not been carried out. The problem with the present setup and Israel’s insistence on “no Hamas, no Fatah” is that they reflect a profound ignorance of the fabric of Palestinian society, its politics and history. The idea that a Palestinian political entity can be created by outside forces and fully integrated into the occupation to manage Palestinian affairs is unrealistic. Over the past 77 years, various Palestinian national movements and revolutions have emerged, united by a single common denominator: the rejection of Israeli colonial presence. No Palestinian collective, regardless of its form, has ever publicly agreed to integration into the Israeli colonial project. Within the framework of resistance, the collective Palestinian consciousness was forged, political parties were born, and the trajectory of public opinion was defined. While the tools and methods adopted by different segments of Palestinian society and political factions may vary, they all share a common commitment to the Palestinian cause and to Palestinian rights. Fatah and Hamas remain the two most prominent political components of Palestinian society. Fatah emerged as the dominant national liberation movement before its political trajectory shifted following the Oslo Accords, while Hamas has maintained its commitment to resistance since its inception. Between these two currents and other smaller factions, the Palestinian social fabric naturally rejects any leadership or entity that operates outside the framework of national independence or accepts foreign guardianship. Israel has decided to ignore this deeply rooted reality, attempting to bypass it by imposing artificial facts on the ground. Consequently, it has continuously sought “local alternatives” for governance in Gaza. Throughout the war, Israel attempted to empower and arm certain individuals and groups, hoping they could have a role in the postwar era. Many of them were people who were socially marginalised before the war, and some have extensive criminal records. One example is Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of the Tarabin tribe, who was imprisoned for many years on drug-related charges and who during the war received substantial Israeli backing to create his own militia. He looted humanitarian aid and collaborated with the occupation in a variety of ways in Rafah, including securing passage for Israeli troops. After he was killed on December 4, there were celebrations in Gaza; his own tribe issued a statement denouncing him. Israeli attempts to engage with other clans and empower them have also ended badly.
Prominent families and clans have repeatedly condemned in public statements the actions of individual members who have decided to collaborate with Israel. They have withdrawn protection and ostracised the collaborators, while affirming that Palestinian clans remain firmly committed to the Palestinian national struggle. This rejection reflects the failure of Israeli policy to create any local extension aligned with its project. It also confirms Israel’s inability to erase Palestinian national memory or break the collective will, despite genocide, starvation, and displacement. The situation is similar in the West Bank. There, for three decades, the Fatah-dominated PA has collaborated on security with the occupation. As a result, its legitimacy today is extremely low. According to a recent poll, the PA has an approval rating of just 23 percent in the West Bank, while its president, Mahmoud Abbas, has 16 percent. It is important to note here that despite the PA’s close security ties to the occupation, it has failed to stem out Palestinian resistance in the West Bank. In the years preceding the war of genocide, the West Bank witnessed the rise of armed formations that were independent of the traditional factions Fatah and Hamas, such as Areen al-Usud (Lions’ Den) in Nablus and the Jenin Brigades. These groups were organised by youth and enjoyed broad popular support. Their resistance campaigns reflected the continuity of the armed struggle approach outside traditional structures and the support it enjoys among the Palestinian people. What Israel and its Western allies who are trying to create a new governance mechanism for Gaza fail to understand is that in the Palestinian context, legitimacy matters. It is something that cannot be created by foreign councils or Israeli-funded militias. That is because legitimacy in Palestine is derived from resistance, which ties national history and identity together. Any attempt to bypass this reality is doomed to failure, as it would only turn Gaza into a zone of permanent chaos, internal conflicts, and comprehensive security collapse. It would also shatter Trump’s legacy as a dealmaker and expose the present arrangement as nothing more than a political spectacle to cover up the fallout of an Israeli-executed genocide. The only solution that can guarantee stability is full Palestinian administrative independence, based exclusively on the will of the Palestinian people in all their diversity and affiliations, with a clear path toward the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/18/peace-boards-and-technocrats-wont-stem-out-palestinian-resistance


Wa'il Rajabi with some of his children and his brother, Kayed- Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - Jan 18, 2026
{‘Enormous pain in my heart’: Palestinian evictions mount in East Jerusalem
Legal appeals by Palestinians facing largest-scale evictions in occupied East Jerusalem since 1967 were denied in the new year. Batn al-Hawa, Occupied East Jerusalem – During his last days in the only home he’s ever known, Kayed Rajabi is spending most of his time on the family’s rooftop, gazing at Al-Aqsa Mosque just a stone’s throw across the Silwan valley. “Smoke, smoke, smoke,” Rajabi says anxiously, a cigarette in his hand. “That is all we can do.” A street sweeper for Jerusalem’s municipality, Rajabi has stopped going to work, afraid his family might be thrown out of their home while he’s out. His children and those of the other families facing imminent eviction have stopped going to school as well. Everyone is terrified about what might happen if they leave their homes for even a moment – while trying to have a last precious few moments together. “I’m 50 years old. I was born here,” says Rajabi as he looks across the valley of Silwan. “I opened my eyes in this house. My laughter, my sadness, my joy, and all my friends and loved ones are in this neighbourhood.” He is quiet for a moment and the silence is filled by the cooing of pigeons in the coops he and his brother take care of on their shared roof. After a moment, he resumes. “Today, the house that is my dream, that is all my memories – they want to destroy it in a single second and put a settler in our place. This is an enormous pain in the heart, a pain you can’t imagine. “This isn’t a building or property that will be destroyed – these are memories they want to erase.”
‘Constant psychological pressure’
At the turn of the new year, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected final appeals by 150 Palestinians across 28 families in the Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood of Silwan facing eviction from their homes. In all, approximately 700 residents of the neighbourhood, spanning 84 families, are now facing imminent forced displacement, which, according to Israeli NGO Ir Amim, would amount to the largest coordinated expulsion of Palestinians from a single neighbourhood in East Jerusalem since 1967, when Israel’s occupation began. Twenty-four homes belonging to the extended Rajabi family alone are subject to eviction orders, affecting 250 people.
On January 12, the 28 families which had launched appeals received official letters from the Israeli execution office under the Ministry of Justice demanding they vacate their homes within 21 days. The family of Khalil al-Basbous, a neighbour of the Rajabis, has already been forcibly evicted from their home as a result of the latest court decision. For as long as they can remember, the rooftop of Rajabi and his younger brother, Wa’il, 44, overlooking Al-Aqsa Mosque, has been a meeting place for family and neighbours to have breakfast together and drink tea. “You’d find 50 of my family members coming here, and we’d fill the neighbourhood with our celebrations of Ramadan and Eid,” recalls Rajabi. He reels off the names of all the family members and friends from past Ramadans who have already been forced out of their homes in their street. “The memories were so sweet before the settlers came,” says Rajabi. “The best memories, the best neighbourhood, the best neighbours – our neighbours who were replaced by the settlers.” As he is speaking, a commotion begins outside the terrace of houses. It is the settlers who recently replaced his lifelong neighbours, the family of Abu Ashraf Gheith. He goes out to argue with them and their armed security guard before he returns to the rooftop, his eyes wide from adrenaline. Peering over at Al-Aqsa, he takes another puff of his cigarette. “The Gheith family, they were like family to us,” he says of his former neighbours. “We all loved each other. We grew up together, we opened our eyes together. We used to play, me and their sons and daughters. “I cried every day after they were thrown out of their home so easily.” Now, settlers occupy all the homes bordering Kayed and Wa’il’s building. “We are under constant psychological pressure from the settlers,” said Wa’il. “We are not living.” Rajabi and his brother’s apartments in the building they share with their mother are simple – a kitchen, a small living room, a bedroom for each of them and their wives, and another room for their many children. “This house isn’t a villa, it’s not a palace,” says Rajabi. “But we are happy and comfortable here. The most incredible thing is to sit here, and your eyes fall on Al-Aqsa Mosque.” For years, Rajabi, his brother and their family have walked to the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque every week for Friday afternoon prayers – at least until recently, when their living situation went from dire to a “death sentence”, he says. Since November, eight other families in the neighbourhood have been forcibly evicted from their homes, often violently, and Israeli settlers have immediately moved into the emptied homes, often holding loud celebrations. These recent evictions mark a rapid acceleration of the forced displacement which has been taking place for years now in the neighbourhood.
Displaced – yet again
In the 19th century, impoverished Yemeni Jews settled in the area of modern-day Batn al-Hawa, located outside the Old City walls on a hill just south of the Haram al-Sherif complex, home to the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. While good relations reportedly existed between Jews and Muslims within the neighbourhood at the time, bouts of violence in the 1920s and 1930s in East Jerusalem made movement outside the neighbourhood dangerous, compelling these Yemeni Jewish families to leave. Local Palestinians then gained sole ownership of the area over time. Just before the 1967 war, which saw Israel seize control of East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula and the West Bank, the Rajabi family was living in the Sharaf neighbourhood in the Old City of Jerusalem. In 1966, the Jordanian government advised the Rajabis to leave that neighbourhood before violence erupted. They fled to nearby Batn al-Hawa, buying land there from the existing Arab owners. After the war in 1967, the Sharaf neighbourhood was destroyed by the occupying Israeli authorities, who replaced it by expanding the modern-day Jewish Quarter. Then, in 2001, the Israeli courts revived the long-dormant Benvenisti Trust, which had been created in the 19th century to manage land and property in the Batn al-Hawa area and provide homes there to Jewish Yemeni families. The Israeli courts appointed two representatives from the settler organisation Ateret Cohanim to oversee that trust, which was historically entitled to buildings in 5.5 dunums (1.36 acres or 0.55 hectares) of land that today comprise dozens of family homes – despite the lack of any connection between these individuals and the Benvenisti Trust or the Yemeni Jewish community that had once been there. Such court decisions have been made on the basis of Israeli laws, which allow for Jewish-owned lands vacated before and after the 1948 war to be returned to Israeli hands – regardless of any connection to the original inhabitants – following Israel’s conquests in 1967. Such rights are expressly denied to the many more Palestinians who also lost their homes in the aftermath of the wars in 1948 and 1967, including the Rajabis and other families in Batn al-Hawa. “You’re turning these people away from our homes of 60 years because 120 years ago, their lands were ours,” remarked Zuheir Rajabi, 54, leader of the Batn al-Hawa community council, and cousin of Wa’il and Kayed. “So where are our lands, our homes in Katamon, Jaffa, Haifa, the Jewish Quarter, that we were forced to leave?” Ateret Cohanim is one of the main Israeli organisations attempting to advance the transfer of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, replacing them with Israeli settlers. Earlier, the organisation offered to buy homes from families in this working-class neighbourhood for millions of dollars apiece. Nearly all Silwan residents refused. Then, as it fought through Israeli courts to assert control over the land and its buildings, Ateret Cohanim began sending eviction letters to families in Batn al-Hawa in 2015.
Homes ‘for the poor’
According to Aviv Tatarsky, a researcher for the Jerusalem-based Israeli nongovernment organisation Ir Amim, documents from the Benvenisti Trust stipulated that if there were no poor Jewish families in need, other poor families should reside in these lands in their stead. But “the homes [in Batn al-Hawa] are given to ideological settlers, not to Jewish families that are poor,” notes Tatarsky. “The Palestinian families who are evicted are, of course, under the poverty line. So this is a very direct, explicit contradiction to the way the trust is supposed to function.” Official investigations concluded this year by the Israeli Registrar of Charitable Trusts into the Ateret Cohanim-controlled Benvenisti Trust found multiple irregularities, including that all financial activities were conducted via Ateret Cohanim’s bank accounts rather than the Benvenisti Trust. “It’s very clear that the trust is just a cover for the actions of the settler organisation,” says Tatarsky.
Nonetheless, Ateret Cohanim has continued its efforts, unabated, to forcibly evict the Palestinian residents of the neighbourhood. After rebuffing earlier attempts to buy them off, by Zuheir Rajabi’s account, the families in the neighbourhood have spent “hundreds of thousands of shekels” in court since 2015, attempting to reverse or at least delay eviction proceedings. While declining to address some of the particular issues regarding Ateret Cohanim’s involvement in the properties around Batn al-Hawa, Daniel Lurie, executive director and international spokesperson for Ateret Cohanim, told Al Jazeera that the current actions in the neighbourhood are “righting an historical injustice done by barbaric violent Arabs [and the British] towards Yemenite and Sephardi Jews – who drove out the Jews from a known Jewish neighbourhood in the 1920-30s”. “Taking hate-filled violent Arabs out of any neighbourhood [based on Supreme Court rulings] or from Israel is a good thing,” his statement said. The entire process has now culminated in the latest court decision, which rejected the final appeals legally available for the 28 families that are now to be evicted by the start of February, including Zuheir Rajabi’s. “We’re truly exhausted,” says Rajabi, the community representative, inside his home, which is slated for eviction in the coming days. As he speaks, his eyes dart to the video feeds of the security cameras he has installed outside his home. “We’ve been in the courts for 12 years with no results. Anything that benefits the settlers and the extreme right wing gets implemented, but nothing [positive] happens for the Palestinian Arab citizen. It’s impossible.”
‘They scatter us, cut us up like salad, grind us up’
Wa’il Rajabi says he does not know where his family will go when they are forcibly evicted from their home in the coming days. Few of the low-income families here do. “We will stay until our last breath, steadfast, sitting in our homes,” he says. According to Wa’il Rajabi, who earns 9,000 shekels per month, also working for the Jerusalem municipality, rent for any available homes in East Jerusalem is a minimum 5,000 to 7,000 shekels per month, with another 1,000 shekels going towards electricity and water. “How are you going to live on 2,000, 3,000 shekels? What are you going to eat? What are you going to drink? What are you going to dress your child in? How are you going to educate him? How are you going to go to and from work? It’s unreasonable,” said Wa’il, the breadwinner for a family of nine.
“They sentenced us to death.”
As the families in the neighbourhood face eviction one by one – and now at a dramatically accelerated pace – the neighbourly and family bonds are being ripped apart. “It feels like the community is ending,” says Wa’il. “We were all together here, but now you don’t know where one lives – one is in Beit Hanina, one is in Shu’fat, one is in Ras al-Amud,” his brother, Kayed, says. “They scatter us – cut us up like salad, grind us up.” Through this traumatic period, parents spend their nights soothing children from the nightmares they are having about violent settlers coming to throw them out of their homes. “Sometimes I joke with them, laugh with them, tell them stories, just to make them stop being scared, to stop thinking, to ease their stress,” says Wa’il. “But deep down, I know that no matter how we finish the story, they’ll always come back to the same topic.” In the children’s last moments together, every second feels precious, but fragile. “I wish we could live peacefully and play like before,” laments 11-year-old Joury, Wa’il’s youngest daughter, on the family rooftop. Out on the street one recent afternoon, one of the little girls she plays with was performing cartwheels when armed border police walked through their impromptu football game. Moments later, a family of Israeli settlers, accompanied by armed security, passed right by them. Joury recalls another time when the children were playing in the street and an Israeli settler started throwing garbage at them. “We defended ourselves,” she says. “The settler called the police. So since that day, we have not been able to play. If we stay there, the police will come and beat us up and humiliate us and stuff.” The children spend these last days asking their parents the same questions: “Why are they making us leave our homes? Where will we go?” But their parents don’t have any answers for them. However, in their last days together, the children snatch what time they can together on the stairs in front of Wa’il and Kayed’s home, playing football or paddle games. “These days, sometimes, us kids have breakfast together,” says Joury. “Sometimes, we talk about growing up. Sometimes, we talk about defending each other or doing something like that. And we play when we can. We try to enjoy ourselves during these days because we will be separated from each other, from all our friends and family.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/18/enormous-pain-in-my-heart-palestinian-evictions-mount-in-east-jerusalem

Quds news - Jan 18, 2026
{Trump Seeks $1 Billion from Nations to Join His “Board of Peace”
Trump asks countries to pay $1 billion each to join his new “Board of Peace,” giving himself final say over votes, agendas, and members, in what is being described as a rival to the UN.
Washington (QNN)- The Trump administration is asking countries that want a permanent spot on its new Board of Peace to contribute at least $1 billion, according to Bloomberg citing a draft charter that it obtained. Trump would serve as the board’s inaugural chairman and would decide which countries are invited to join. Decisions would be taken by a majority vote, with each member state getting one vote, but all votes would still be subject to the chairman’s approval. The draft states that membership terms last three years, but countries contributing over $1 billion in the first year could serve indefinitely. Trump would also approve the board’s official seal. The plan appears to create an alternative to the United Nations, which Trump has long criticized. The charter describes the board as an international organization “that seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.” The board would formally launch once three member states agree to the charter. Trump has invited leaders including Argentina’s Javier Milei and Canada’s Mark Carney to join a Gaza-focused peace panel, part of the broader board. Several European nations have also been invited, though some officials object to the draft’s proposal that Trump controls the funds. The draft gives Trump broad authority, including the power to approve meeting agendas, call extra sessions, and remove members, though a two-thirds majority could veto removals. The board would hold annual voting meetings and quarterly executive meetings. Trump would also designate his successor in advance. The White House announced the first executive panel on Friday, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67086&slug=trump-seeks-1-billion-from-nations-to-join-his-board-of-peace

Al Jazeera - Jan 18, 2026
{Jagan Chapagain: Is the global humanitarian system breaking down?
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies chief on US aid cuts, attacks on aid workers and whether neutrality can survive modern wars.
As wars intensify and donor funding dries up, the global humanitarian system is under unprecedented strain. Jagan Chapagain, secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, warns that life-saving operations are being scaled back just as needs explode from Gaza and Sudan to Ukraine and climate-driven disasters worldwide. He addresses United States and European aid cuts, attacks on humanitarian workers, the erosion of international law, and whether neutrality and protection still mean anything in today’s conflicts.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/talk-to-al-jazeera/2026/1/18/jagan-chapagain-is-the-global-humanitarian-system-breaking-down

Al Jazeera - Jan 18, 2026
{Who’s on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and why does Israel have objections?
US President Donald Trump has named high-level members of his ‘Board of Peace’ to oversee Gaza’s post-war transition, including controversial figures like Tony Blair and Jared Kushner. Israel has raised objections too, even though critics warn the US-led body sidelines Palestinian voices.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/18/whos-on-trumps-board-of-peace-and-why-does-israel-have-objections

Al Jazeera - Jan 18, 2026
{Israeli attacks wound civilians across Gaza in latest ceasefire violations
Gaza City, al-Mawasi, Bureij refugee camp and Rafah all come under Israeli air attacks and gunfire. Israeli forces have wounded several Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, firing on civilians and launching air and artillery attacks in the latest near-daily violations of the ceasefire in place since October, as its genocidal war on the besieged enclave continues unabated. Medical sources told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli drone fire on Sunday injured civilians in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in southern Gaza City. In southern Gaza, two people, including a girl, were wounded by Israeli gunfire in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis. Additional injuries were reported in areas from which Israeli forces were meant to have withdrawn under the ceasefire. Medical staff at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in eastern Gaza City said three Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire near Netzarim, south of the city. Witnesses told the Anadolu news agency that an Israeli drone opened fire on the group. At Nasser Medical Complex, medics confirmed that two more Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire in al-Mawasi. In central Gaza, doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man in the head in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, describing his condition as serious. The Israeli military also carried out air attacks on buildings in Rafah in the south while Israeli artillery shelled areas east of Jabalia in the north and the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City. Helicopter gunfire was reported near the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and Israeli naval forces fired towards the coast of Khan Younis, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. The latest attacks were carried out as Hamas has welcomed the establishment of a 15-member technocratic committee of Palestinians that would operate under the overall supervision of a “board of peace” to be chaired by United States President Donald Trump. The administrative body will be tasked with providing public services to the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza, but it faces towering challenges and unanswered questions, including about its operations and financing and whether Israel will block its operations. Palestinian officials said Israel has repeatedly violated the US-brokered ceasefire, killing more than 460 Palestinians and wounding over 1,200 since it came into effect on October 10. Israel continues to restrict the entry of food, medical aid and shelter materials into Gaza, where about 2.2 million people face acute humanitarian need in cold weather, barely shielded by flimsy tents. Israel still has a military control of large swaths of Gaza, including much of the south, east and north, according to Israeli military data, but effectively occupies the entire territory.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 71,000 Palestinians and wounded over 171,000, most of them women and children.
The assault has destroyed about 90 percent of civilian infrastructure with the United Nations estimating reconstruction costs at $50bn.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/18/israeli-attacks-wound-civilians-across-gaza-in-latest-ceasefire-violations

Al Jazeera - Jan 18, 2026 - Brian Osgood
{US-backed Palestinian committee shares mission statement on Gaza governance
The technocratic body will operate under the direction of Trump’s ‘board of peace’, stacked with pro-Israel figures. The Palestinian committee tasked with overseeing the future administration of Gaza as part of a US-backed ceasefire plan has released what it says is a “mission statement”, laying out its key priorities and goals. The general commissioner of the National Committee for Gaza Management (NGAC), Ali Shaath, said that the technocratic body would seek to restore core services and cultivate a society “rooted in peace”. “Under the guidance of the Board of Peace, chaired by [US] President Donald J Trump, and with the support and assistance of the High Representative for Gaza, our mission is to rebuild the Gaza Strip not just in infrastructure but also in spirit,” Shaath said in a statement. The NGAC was established as part of Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza and authorised under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803. The White House has said it will be concerned with the day-to-day rebuilding and stabilisation of the enclave, “while laying the foundation for long-term, self-sustaining governance”. Under Trump’s plan, the reconstruction of Gaza would be broadly overseen by a “board of peace” and more closely guided by a “Gaza executive board”. The NGAC faces enormous challenges. Gaza has been physically destroyed after more than two years of Israel’s genocidal war, and there is widespread scepticism from Palestinians over how much autonomy the body will have. Those concerns have been compounded by the presence of firm supporters of Israel, and a lack of Palestinians, so far, on the board of peace and the Gaza executive board. In his statement, Shaath, a former Palestinian Authority (PA) deputy minister, said the body would focus on establishing security control of the Strip, more than half of which remains under direct Israeli control, and restoring basic services destroyed throughout the war. “We are committed to establishing security, restoring the essential services that form the bedrock of human dignity such as electricity, water, healthcare, and education, as well as cultivating a society rooted in peace, democracy, and justice,” he said.
“Operating with the highest standards of integrity and transparency, the NCAG will forge a productive economy capable of replacing unemployment with opportunity for all.” In defiance of an existing ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas, Israel has maintained severe restrictions on the entry of aid into Gaza, which UN agencies and humanitarian groups have said is necessary to deliver services to Palestinians. Hundreds of Palestinians have also been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during that period, bringing the death toll to 71,548 since October 7, 2023. The board of peace was announced as part of phase two of the ceasefire agreement, but letters from Trump inviting foreign leaders to join the body have suggested the US president may see it as a model for bypassing traditional international forums, such as the UN. In mid-December, Israel announced it was banning more than three dozen international aid organisations from operating in Gaza. Some Palestinians also worry that the NGAC’s technocratic approach may circumvent key political questions, such as the creation of a future Palestinian state and an end to Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territory, in favour of a focus on economic development and outside investment opportunities. In his statement, Shaath said the committee will “embrace peace, through which we strive to secure the path to true Palestinian rights and self determination”.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/18/us-backed-palestinian-committee-shares-mission-statement-on-gaza-governance

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Videoscreen grab: A mothers' Grief - Freezing to Death

Quds news - Jan 16, 2026 - Yasmin Abu Shammala
{Freezing to Death in Gaza: How Cold Is Killing Displaced babies
At least seven infants have died this winter in Gaza. Displaced babies freeze in soaked tents as Israel’s blockade blocks essential aid. This is how Israel is freezing Gaza’s babies to death.
In Gaza, cold is no longer a passing discomfort or a seasonal hardship. It has become a lethal condition, one that creeps into tents, settles into the bones of displaced families, and silently claims the lives of infants who never stood a chance to protect themselves. At least seven infants have died from cold exposure in Gaza this winter, according to the Ministry of Health, as thousands of displaced families remain trapped in tents without heating, insulation, or adequate food. Doctors warn the true number may be higher. “I started collecting strips of fabric and pieces of cloth until I managed to turn them into curtains. That’s how the tent was made.” Doctors, parents, and authorities confirm that these deaths are not caused by rare illnesses or unavoidable medical complications, but by displacement, poverty, hunger, and life in makeshift shelters that offer no meaningful protection from wind, rain, or freezing temperatures. At the center of this tragedy is Ahmad Tottah, a father who lost two children, each in a different year, to cold. His testimony, alongside statements from Gaza’s Ministry of Health and neonatal specialists at Nasser Hospital, paints a devastating picture of how survival itself has become fragile for the youngest and weakest.
A Life of Repeated Displacement
Speaking to Quds News Network (QNN), Ahmad Tottah described how his family’s descent into vulnerability began long before his children died. After nine months of Israel’s genocidal war, Ahmad was forcibly displaced from Northern Gaza to the south. His journey followed a familiar pattern for thousands of families: first to Rafah, then to the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, near the sea.
At the beginning, there was no tent. “For a week, I lived under three pieces of wood and plastic,” Ahmad said. “I started collecting strips of fabric and pieces of cloth until I managed to turn them into curtains. That’s how the tent was made.” That fragile shelter, stitched together from scraps, became home for more than a year. When a second wave of forced displacement began, Ahmad fled again, this time with his wife, his son Ibrahim, and his infant daughter Misk, the twin sister of Mohammad, a baby boy who had already died from hypothermia. The family spent a month on the Gaza seashore, where humidity soaked through the fabric of their tent and cold winds blew directly from the sea. Later, they moved again to Khan Younis, carrying little more than their children and what remained of their shelter.
The Loss of Mohammad
On September 29, 2024, Ahmad’s son Mohammad died. He was just two months old. Ahmad said doctors informed him that the cause of death was cold exposure. At the time, the family was living in a tent made entirely of curtains in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, with no insulation, no heating, and no protection from the elements. Before his death, Mohammad had been vomiting and suffering from diarrhea. Ahmad took him to Nasser Hospital, where the baby remained for three days. Despite medical care, Mohammad did not survive. “He was so small,” Ahmad said. “And the cold never left us.” The family continued to live in the same conditions. There was nowhere else to go.
“She Died in My Arms”
One year later, Ahmad faced the same loss again, this time with his daughter Reda. She was two months old when she died during an intense cold spell that swept across Gaza. Ahmad said there were no warning signs. “There was nothing wrong with her,” he said. “Her feeding was normal. Her crying was normal. Everything was normal.” Reda died from cardiac and respiratory arrest. “Losing one child is unbearable... Losing two, each in a different year, is something I can’t explain." That night, Ahmad held her close, fully aware that she had already passed. The thin curtains of their tent did nothing to keep out the cold, and the damp coastal air pressed in around them. “She slept in my arms all night,” he said. “She was already gone, but I didn’t want to let her go.” “I never expected to face a situation where my daughter would die in my arms, and I could do absolutely nothing,” he said. “I just held her, feeling a piece of myself die with her.” “Losing one child is unbearable,” Ahmad added. “Losing two, each in a different year, is something I can’t explain. Imagine carrying two babies, and then, two months later, carrying only one.” His testimony ended with a plea, not for comfort or luxury, but for basic humanity. “We just want to live like any family in the world,” he said. “We’re not asking for anything special. We just want to live.”

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Inside Gaza’s Neonatal Units
What happened to Ahmad’s children is being repeated inside Gaza’s hospitals.
Speaking to QNN, Dr. Hatem Dhaheer, Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nasser Hospital, offered a medical explanation for these deaths. “Most of the infants who die suddenly from cold are premature babies or those weighing less than 2.5 kilograms,” he said. “Their bodies are extremely fragile, and even a small drop in temperature can have catastrophic consequences.” When an infant’s body temperature falls below 33 degrees Celsius, survival becomes unlikely. “At this level, hypothermia causes bleeding in the brain and sometimes the lungs,” Dr. Dhaheer explained. “It also triggers a severe drop in heart rate, and within hours the body stops responding, even to mechanical ventilation.” Many of the deaths occurred among infants recently discharged from neonatal incubators. “They left the hospital in relatively good condition,” he said. “But they were returned to environments that were neither suitable nor warm, tents exposed to sea winds. Tragically, they died shortly afterward.” He recalled a premature infant who had spent a month in an incubator and had reached 1.8 kilograms at discharge. Two weeks later, she was brought back to the hospital dead from cold exposure. “Each of these deaths is more than a number,” Dr. Dhaheer said. “They are tiny lives with families clinging to hope. When these children are sent back to tents, it is a struggle no infant should have to face.”
Babies at the Highest Risk
According to Zaher Al-Wahedi, Director of the Health Information Department at Gaza’s Ministry of Health, at least seven children have died from extreme cold exposure this season. “Children are the most exposed to death from cold,” Al-Wahedi told QNN, particularly those born prematurely or with low birth weight.
Newborns lose heat far more quickly than adults due to their body composition. While such risks can be managed in stable environments, they become nearly impossible to control in Gaza’s overcrowded displacement camps. “Most of the population is living in tents,” he said. “The wind cuts through them, rain soaks them, and the smallest children are left almost completely unshielded.” Skin-to-skin contact with mothers can reduce risk, but even this is often not enough. Poor maternal nutrition, caused by chronic food shortages, has increased premature births, miscarriages, and fragile newborns. Al-Wahedi noted that no adult deaths from cold were recorded during this period. The victims are overwhelmingly infants.

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Cold That Kills Quietly
At 4°C, many of the body’s basic biological processes begin to slow, and prolonged exposure can quickly lead to hypothermia, organ failure, and death, especially in infants. When exposed to cold, the body initially shivers to generate heat. In wet conditions, common in Gaza’s coastal camps, heat loss accelerates dramatically. Infants are especially vulnerable. They cannot shiver effectively or regulate body temperature. They depend entirely on caregivers who are themselves cold, malnourished, and exhausted. These deaths are preventable. A tent made of nylon and fabric cannot replace a home. An incubator cannot protect a child once that child is returned to freezing conditions. Medical knowledge exists. What is missing is shelter, warmth, food, and safety.
Freezing to death is not dramatic. For infants, it is silent.
For Ahmad Tottah, the loss is permanent.
“I just want my children to be seen,” he told us. “And I don’t want any other father to hold his baby all night, not knowing they are already gone.”} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67078&slug=freezing-to-death-in-gaza-how-cold-is-killing-displaced-babies

Quds news - Jan 16, 2026
{What It Feels Like Dying from Cold: Gaza’s Babies Freezing to Death in Slow Motion
In Gaza, winter kills quietly. Babies shiver, stop breathing, and die in tents too cold to survive. These deaths are not accidents; they are preventable tragedies unfolding in slow motion. How does it feel like dying from cold?
In Gaza, winter has turned deadly. Cold winds slip through fragile tents, pierce to the bone, and silently claim the lives of the most vulnerable. Infants, unable to protect themselves, suffer the most. The Ministry of Health reports that at least seven babies have already died from cold exposure this season. Thousands more remain trapped in tents without heating or enough food. The deaths of Gaza’s babies are the direct result of displacement, poverty, hunger, and makeshift shelters; all caused by the ongoing Israeli blockade.
This is what a baby feels as they die from the cold.
Phase One: The Body’s Last Fight
When the body first feels the cold, it fights back. Shivering begins. Blood vessels in the hands and feet constrict to preserve heat for vital organs. Movement becomes clumsy. Coordination fails. For infants, especially newborns, this phase is extremely short. Medical research shows that babies lose heat far faster than adults due to their body composition, thin skin, and limited ability to regulate temperature. In Gaza’s tents, where cold air and moisture penetrate easily, this early stage can pass quickly. Even mild hypothermia triggers numbness and confusion. In a tent exposed to sea winds, wet and cold, this stage can last only minutes for a fragile newborn.
Phase Two: Heat Production Fails
As core body temperature continues to fall, the body’s defenses begin to collapse. Shivering weakens and may stop entirely, signaling that the body can no longer generate heat. Heart rate and breathing slow. Consciousness becomes impaired. Speaking to QNN, Dr. Hatem Dhaheer, Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nasser Hospital, explained why infants are especially vulnerable at this stage. “Most of the infants who die suddenly from cold are premature babies or those weighing less than 2.5 kilograms,” he said. “Their bodies are extremely fragile, and even a small drop in temperature can have catastrophic consequences.” Dr. Dhaheer said that when an infant’s body temperature falls below 33 degrees Celsius, survival becomes unlikely. “At this level, hypothermia causes bleeding in the brain and sometimes the lungs,” he explained. “It also triggers a severe drop in heart rate, and within hours the body stops responding, even to mechanical ventilation.”
Phase Three: Organ Failure and Death
As body temperature drops further, vital organs begin to fail. Medical literature shows that at severe levels of hypothermia, heart rhythm becomes irregular, breathing slows dangerously, and brain activity declines. Without intervention, death follows. Many of the infants who died had recently been discharged from neonatal incubators. According to Dr. Dhaheer, they left the hospital in relatively stable condition but were returned to environments that could not keep them warm. “They left the hospital in relatively good condition,” he said. “But they were returned to environments that were neither suitable nor warm, tents exposed to sea winds. Tragically, they died shortly afterward.” He recalled one premature infant who had spent a month in an incubator and reached 1.8 kilograms at discharge. Two weeks later, she was brought back to the hospital dead from cold exposure. “Each of these deaths is more than a number,” Dr. Dhaheer said. “They are tiny lives with families clinging to hope. When these children are sent back to tents, it is a struggle no infant should have to face.”
Babies at the Highest Risk
According to Zaher Al-Wahedi, Director of the Health Information Department at Gaza’s Ministry of Health, at least seven children have died from extreme cold exposure this season. “Children are the most exposed to death from cold,” Al-Wahedi told QNN, particularly those born prematurely or with low birth weight.
Medical experts note that newborns lose heat far more quickly than adults. In stable environments, this risk can be managed through warmth, nutrition, and medical care. In Gaza’s displacement camps and as Israel continues to besiege the strip, these protections do not exist. “Most of the population is living in tents,” Al-Wahedi said. “The wind cuts through them, rain soaks them, and the smallest children are left almost completely unshielded.” Skin-to-skin contact with mothers can reduce heat loss, but health officials say it is often insufficient. Chronic food shortages have weakened maternal health, increasing premature births and leaving newborns even more fragile. Al-Wahedi noted that no adult deaths from cold were recorded during this period. The victims are overwhelmingly babies.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67079&slug=what-it-feels-like-dying-from-cold-gazas-babies-freezing-to-death-in-slow-motion


Baby Girl Dies From Bitter Cold
Jinhagency - Womens News Agency - Jan 17, 2026
{Baby Girl Dies From Bitter Cold in Khan Younis
Medical sources reported the death of a 27-day-old baby girl due to the harsh winter weather conditions in the Gaza Strip.
News Center – The death of another infant in the Gaza Strip exposes the precarious situation of displaced people living in tents that offer no protection from the harsh winter, highlighting the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe that deepens daily with the continued cold waves. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced this morning, Saturday, January 17, the death of 27-day-old Aisha Ayesh Al-Agha in Khan Younis due to the extreme cold. With the death of baby Aisha Al-Agha, the number of child victims in the Gaza Strip due to the severe cold since the beginning of winter rises to eight, amidst a shortage of aid and a lack of heating materials. The same sources indicated that the incident reflects the severity of the humanitarian situation in the Strip, especially for children and displaced people living in tents ill-equipped to withstand the cold weather.}: Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/baby-girl-dies-from-bitter-cold-in-khan-younis-38391

Quds news - Jan 17, 2026
{Gaza Baby Dies from Cold in Displacement Tent as Winter Death Toll Rises
A 27-day-old Palestinian baby froze to death inside a displacement tent in southern Gaza, as winter storms, Israel’s blockade, and the lack of shelter continue to claim the lives of Gaza’s most vulnerable children.
Gaza (QNN)- A baby has died from extreme cold inside a displacement tent in southern Gaza, as winter conditions continue to claim the lives of displaced children in the besieged territory and Israel continues to siege the enclave. Aisha Al-Agha, aged 27 days, died in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, after freezing temperatures penetrated the tent where her family was sheltering. Health officials said the baby did not suffer from illness or injury. Exposure to severe cold during the night caused her death, as the family lacked heating, insulation, and proper shelter. Israel’s blockade has restricted the entry of tents, mobile homes, and winter supplies, leaving thousands of displaced families exposed to extreme weather. The Ministry of Health confirmed that Aisha died due to acute exposure to cold, bringing the number of children who have died inside displacement tents this winter to eight. Al Jazeera reported that the family found the infant unresponsive at dawn and rushed her to Nasser Medical Complex, where doctors declared her dead. Aisha’s father said his daughter was in normal condition before the family went to sleep. They later woke to find her body stiff from the cold. He said displacement tents are unfit for living and that children pay the highest price after Israel's widespread destruction of homes. Her mother described the final hours, saying her baby’s lips changed color and her body hardened despite repeated attempts to keep her warm throughout the night. The death comes as officials say Israel has failed to meet ceasefire obligations, particularly those related to allowing shelter materials, mobile homes, and heating supplies into Gaza as temperatures drop. During the latest storm, hundreds of tents flooded with rainwater, while previously damaged buildings collapsed, causing further casualties. The incidents have deepened Gaza’s humanitarian crisis amid severe shortages of basic services. Aisha’s death is part of a wider pattern. The Government Media Office said earlier that seven children had already died from extreme cold inside displacement centers since the start of winter. Since the beginning of the genocide, more than 24 people, most of them newborns and premature infants, have died due to cold exposure and lack of heating. On January 12, the Ministry of Health documented the death of Mahmoud Al-Aqra, a one-week-old infant who arrived at Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital suffering from severe hypothermia before his heart stopped. Shortly after, Mohammed Abu Harbeed, aged two months, also died in Gaza City. Dr. Hatem Dhaheer, Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nasser Hospital, told QNN that When an infant’s body temperature falls below 33 degrees Celsius, survival becomes unlikely. “At this level, hypothermia causes bleeding in the brain and sometimes the lungs.” “Most of the infants who die suddenly from cold are premature babies or those weighing less than 2.5 kilograms,” he added.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67082&slug=gaza-baby-dies-from-cold-in-displacement-tent-as-winter-death-toll-rises

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